It appears that God’s existence is on trial. We constantly hear arguments from both sides of the aisle but forget that the jury has already packed its bags and left for home. Americans have decided by an overwhelming majority that God does in fact exist. Polls consistently show that 85-95% of Americans believe in a God, therefore the real question in front of us is not, “does God exist?” But rather, “who is this God in whom we believe?” We sit around in groups and try and decide what this God is like. We talk about God like a politician speaks of the voters when he thinks the microphone is off. We say what we really think of Him instead of actually meeting Him and hearing what he has to say.

Are you seeking the God who is, or the God you want? If you are creating the God you want then you are merely divinizing your desires. Your God may be personally satisfying but is absolutely irrelevant and optional to the rest of us. Interestingly, when we divinize your desires we are really divinizing ourselves. We set ourselves up as gods and then try to hide our conceit by calling it our higher power or god consciousness. God(s) require worship and if you have deified yourself, then in the end, all your “religious acts” will be nothing more than self-worship. The next time you read about the latest religious fad, ask yourself, who really is being worshipped here, me or some other power?